Doktor Sleepless

In the late 2000s, Warren Ellis and artist Ivan Rodriguez brought Doktor Sleepless to Avatar Press, a 13-issue series that follows a brilliant, disaffected engineer who reinvents himself as a mysterious, media-savvy provocateur. Set in a decaying near-future city, the story explores themes of societal collapse, technological rebellion, and the power of ideas to reshape reality. Rodriguez’s gritty, detailed artwork grounds Ellis’s dense, philosophical script in a world that feels both uncomfortably familiar and darkly speculative. This series stands as a sharp, thought-provoking entry in Ellis’s body of work, blending cyberpunk cynicism with a call to radical change.